the landowner‚ Edith May Pretty‚ helped unearth some of the mounds on the burial site. When they did this‚ they found out that the burial site was Anglo-Saxon‚ and that grave robbers have disturbed some of the ruins. Around the site‚ there are around twenty barrows‚ or mounds‚ and the ship itself was found in one of the mounds. Many of the burials were found in the actual mounds‚ but twenty-seven other burials were found outside the mounds. Sutton Hoo is somewhere as old as around A.D. 625‚ this is
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Overseas Tankship (U.K.) Limited v.The Miller Steamship Co. Pty. Limited and another (Wagon Mound No 2)‚ Judicial Committee of the Privy Council on appeal from the Supreme Court of New South Wales‚ 1966 There are extracts from this case at p. 80 of Weinrib and then a summary of the result of this case at p 183. The case has some important passages beyond what appear in the p. 80 extract. Please add the following to your reading: LORD REID‚ LORD MORRIS OF BORTH-Y-GEST‚ LORD PEARCE‚ LORD WILBERFORCE
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During this on-going expansion‚ Americans came across many areas that were inhabited by people including the Indians and the "mound-builders." Bryant describes these primitive‚ yet advanced people as the mound builders as‚ "A race‚ that long has passed away‚/ Built them;-a disciplined and populous race/ Heaped‚ with long toil‚ the earth." Later he compares the mound builders way of
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discovered in fragments. The interpretation of excavated Viking graves was also problematic due to religious ambivalence from pagandom to Christianity even though many of the archeological findings were from the Viking Age (Pulsiano and Wolf; Burial Mounds and Burial Practices). Nonetheless‚ the burial customs present the modern world with the important aspects of the perception of reverence for ancestors‚ life after death‚ and social structure in the old Scandinavian culture. Scandinavians believed
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Barrow sits between the parish church and the River Esk in Repton‚ Bluffshire‚ U.K. Last summer‚ I examined evidence for previous disturbance(s) of the site and assessed the extent to which the original Neolithic burial mound remained intact. I excavated two different sites on the mound‚ one on the east end and another on the west end of the barrow. While excavating and cleaning each of the sections‚ I recovered artifacts and human bones. I was also able to draw a stratigraphic profile of each excavation
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*The Eastgate Complex*: The Eastgate Complex located in Harare‚ Zimbabwe was designed by the Engineers of Arup led by Mick Pearce. This complex is designed with the inspiration from the ventilation design from termite mounds. Termites require their home to remain at an exact temperature of 30.5°C throughout the day even when the temperature ranges from 1°C (during the night) to 40°C (during the day). This complex has natural cooling ventilation process with specially designed hooded windows‚ variable
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remoteness used by the courts was developed in the case‚ Overseas Tankship (UK) Ltd v Morts Dock & Engineering Co Ltd (The Wagon Mound) No 1. In this case‚ Lord Simons said that it was the foresight of the reasonable man which alone can determine responsibility. However there does not appear to be any definition of what exactly constitutes reasonable foresight. Since The Wagon Mound No 1 the courts have frequently reiterated that the defendant may be liable even though he could not envisage that precise
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actions‚ and thoughts. The first chapter‚ titled "Imaging a Distant World‚" relies heavily on an estimation drawing on actual known facts about initial encounters but filling in the blanks with imagined possible scenarios. The view east begins at Cahokia‚ the metropolis located across the Mississippi River from present-day St. Louis that flourished around 1100 A.D‚ and Richter employs its story to remind "us that the great changes occurring in Native American life during the sixteenth century and
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ground. Nasca arrest also drew geometric forms‚ such as trapezoidal‚ spirals‚ and straight lines. The serpent mound is one of the largest and best known of the woodlands effigy mounds. Serpent mound represents one of the first efforts at preserving a Native American site from destruction at the hands of of hunters and farmers. The Mississippians also constructed effigy mounds which are mounds built in the form of animals or birds . Andean weavers manufactured their textiles by first spinning yarn produced
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Social and Behavior Patterns of Meerkats The animal that I selected to observe is the meerkat. This research paper will explain the behavior patterns and social structures of the meerkat. After touring the entire zoo‚ I selected the meerkats because they were more active than any other species and their location was closer to view than any other animal. The weather was cloudy and warm and it was about 1500 hours when I arrived at the site to observe them. Meerkats have long bodies and faces
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